Thread: What did you do to your Car today?

Originally Posted by Bills1997GTP

While I'm in my hangover I tightened up my lugs, they were already really tight, but I guess not tight enough, killed most of the vibrating. I'm sure if I tighten them up more it might stop completely but I'm scared I might break something. They are already tight as ****.


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Or you will pull a me and sheer 3 of the 5 wheel studs

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Tightening them in a star pattern and then torque them properly.

Yes I make sure I do every time, it could be balance because there's prolly 10k left in these tires but would tightening the lugs help an unbalanced tire?

Also my rims are 5x114.3 btw


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Tightening lugs wont do anything for an unbalanced tire. Try rotating them around. Unbalanced tire on rear wont be felt as much,

What I have to do (5x114.3) is rotate the wheel while i hand tighten the lugs and then go back and tighten then with my ratchet. If I don't then a lot of times the lugs don't go in all the way on the rim.

Bet you lost the weights on the rim have it looked at my a tire shop. That would be my first move. If they see an out of round tire or bent rim then you know whats going on

Took the GP to Cosi yesterday and it ran fine on the way there. Got in it to go home and it ran like poop. It seemed it missed all the way to Zanesville (about 45 minutes) to Advanced where I scanned it. Had no codes other than the o2 sensor codes and a new thermostat code. Turned the car back on and it ran fine the rest of the way home. Confused at the moment?? Plugs and wires a new as of 2 weeks ago and y'all know the trans is new. Fluid in trans is bright red and up to where it needed to be. Any suggestions? 05 GT

What o2 code? What thermostat code?

o2 codes (p0420) I think? Thermostat is p0128 low temp

What temp is it reading. When my coolant temp sensor went bad my car acted all weird. 420 is from the cat

what do you mean acted all weird? what did it do?

Revved on its own and cut out. The pcm thought it was -11 on a 70º day

would this cause mine to seem to misfire all of the time sometimes and run fine other times?

mine just ran bad all the time but as soon as it started doing it i swapped it out. I didn't have the 128 code though.

Put my winter tires and rims on.

Woohoo

Originally Posted by iRideGTP

Got me torque app with the adapter. Now I just need to know/learn what readings are good and which are bad lol

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Their all bad